Committee of Deans Meeting 10/97

Meeting 10/97 of the Committee of Deans was held at 2.15 pm on Tuesday, 19 August 1997 in the Sir George Lush Room, Ground Floor, University Offices Building 3a, Clayton Campus.

Members having a direct commercial or financial interest in any item before this meeting must declare that interest to the Chair via the Committee secretary prior to consideration of the item, and must not take part in a vote on any matter concerning it.

Tony Calder
Secretary 97/0025

Prior to the commencement of the meeting, Professor Peter Spearritt briefed the Committee on a confidential matter.

MINUTES

An apology was received from Professor Maloney, Deputy Vice-Chancellor - International & Public Affairs.

Mr John Levine, Director - Budget & Statistical Services, Ms Deborah Lampard, Deputy Manager, Budget & Statistical Services and Mr Phillip Siggins, Manager, University Secretariat were in attendance.

Professor Peter Spearritt was in attendance for the confidential item.

Professor Robinson welcomed Councils appointment of Professor Redmond as Dean, Monash College of Art & Design and congratulated Professor Porter on his recent appointment as Planning Dean of the Medical School, James Cook University.

The minutes of meeting 9/97 were confirmed.

3. Matters arising from the minutes not dealt with elsewhere in the agenda

4.1 Vice Chancellor

4.1.1 Load Planning - HDR and OPG

Ms Deborah Lampard tabled the following documents:

• Table 1: Development of DEETYA Load Distribution By Course Level 1998 - 2002
• Table 2 : 1997 Actual vs Planned, 1998 - 2002 Planned DEETYA Postgraduate Student Load By Degree Faculty.
• Table 3 : Actual Student Load (@31.3.97), 1998 - 2002 Planned Student Load By Campus - Higher Degree Research.
• Table 4 : Actual Student Load (@31.3.97), 1998 - 2002 Planned Student Load By Campus - Other Postgraduates.
• Table 5 : 1997 Actual (31.3.97) vs Planned, 1998 - 2002 Planned DEETYA Postgraduate Student Load By Campus.

Ms Lampard provided an overview of the documents and requested that Deans respond with their initial views of the content by 29 August.

4.1.2 Load Planning

Mr John Levine, introduced and provided background information on the tabled document titled International Student Load Profile.

During initial discussion, the following matters were raised and discussed:

• any alteration to the length of a degree would effect the projections;
• the support infrastructure for Open Learning and Distance Education students is currently under consideration;
• the role of Monash International in supporting the activities of Monash University in the recruitment of students.

Mr Levine invited Deans to provide further comments on the content of the tables.

4.2 Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Development)

4.2.1 Enterprise Bargaining

The Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Development), Professor P LeP Darvall provided an update on the status of the enterprise bargaining process and distributed a copy of an email message outlining the decision of the AIRC on matters including tenure ratios.

4.3 Deputy Vice-Chancellor (International and Public Affairs)

4.4 Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic and Planning)

4.5 General Manager

4.5.1. Visit to South Africa

In the absence of Professor Maloney, Mr Wade provided the Committee with an outline of the major outcomes of a recent visit to South Africa by Professors Maloney, Rickard and Rosenberg and Mr Wade. Issues of interest included :

• that the education system in South Africa is under enormous pressure due to the lack of resources and the high demand for places;
• that alternative (non-government) providers of educational resources are taking off;
• several institutions indicated a need for assistance from a 'good Faculty of Education'.
• there is pent up demand for exchange schemes in the areas of academic staff and teachers;
• due to weak exchange rate for the Rand, not many students can afford to undertake overseas studies due to the costs involved; and
• Professional bodies within South Africa are looking for good programs via Distance Education.

5.1 Control / Authorisation of general notices on the Web

The current restriction on access to University wide transmission of email were discussed.

6.1 Group of Eight and the AVCC

Professor Robinson advised the Committee that he had recently attended meetings of the above organisations and provided a brief overview of the major issues discussed.

6.2 Relationship between Monash University and the University of Melbourne

Professor Robinson advised the Committee that ongoing discussions focusing on possible areas of interaction between Monash and Melbourne were underway with Professor A D Gilbert, Vice Chancellor and Principal - University of Melbourne.

7.1 British Chevening Scholarships

A document was attached with the Agenda for the information of members. (D43/97)

7.2 Creating our future

Launch of the Victorian Government's statement on Science, Engineering and Technology. A document was attached with the Agenda for the information of members. (D44/97)

The next scheduled Committee of Deans meeting will be held on Tuesday, 9 September 1997 at 2.15 pm in the Sir George Lush Room.

Distribution

(Hard copy):

Vice-Chancellor
Deputy Vice-Chancellors
Deans
General Manager
Executive Assistant to Vice-Chancellor